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Published: December 26, 2025 21:04

“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.…

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Published: December 26, 2025 20:59

The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 26, 2025 20:57

It’s not the news when you repeat incongruous lies coming from the White House. Come on, Axios. We need you to do better. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 24, 2025 17:29

The other day I experienced an inhuman assault on Christmas – an AI carol. The machine's inability to understand the carol's message of love made it eerie. Basic cultural forms like holiday ritual and music are weakened under the assault of algorithms.…

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Published: December 23, 2025 23:55

Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 23, 2025 18:09

Do we charge for this? Or is it a free service we provide to friendly dictators? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 23, 2025 17:57

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 22, 2025 20:06

For an excellent study of medicalizing euphemisms please see Golfo Alexopolous’s history of the Gulag, entitled "Illness and Inhumanity."

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Published: December 22, 2025 19:58

People are dying inside American concentration camps right now. https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2025/12/20/911-calls-from-camp-east-montana-detention-center-highlight-dire-conditions/87792917007/

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Published: December 21, 2025 21:42

As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious…

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Published: December 21, 2025 21:37

In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here:…

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Published: December 20, 2025 18:25

Ukraine keeps defying the possible through tactics we have never seen before. We must keep putting pressure on Russia. Speaking with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social

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Published: December 20, 2025 15:47

A year later and I'm happily remembering that Prof Iryna Vushko’s "Lost Fatherland" was a Financial Times book of the year. Hugely impressed and proud.…